CVE-2024-53899 (GCVE-0-2024-53899)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-24 18:25
VLAI
Summary
virtualenv before 20.26.6 allows command injection through the activation scripts for a virtual environment. Magic template strings are not quoted correctly when replacing. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2024-9287.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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